Hunting at High Altitudes 



been driven into the basin the summer before. He 

 was a very intelligent, companionable and hospit- 

 able man, who, when he learned of the situation, 

 at once supplied my immediate wants in flour and 

 fresh meat. In those days flour and such things 

 must be brought two hundred and fifty or three 

 hundred miles over two mountain ranges, carried 

 a part of the way on pack horses, in quantities suf- 

 ficient for a year's supply. It is apparent there- 

 fore how precious it became. I was later able to 

 return the supply received from Captain Carter 

 from flour loaned me by Captain Belknap, whose 

 ranch was located on the same stream, ten miles 

 above, under charge of John Dyer. 



For some days we were detained at this camp 

 by a cold snap, the mercury going down to 32 

 degrees below zero, but on November 22 it had 

 grown warmer, and we broke camp and started 

 for our winter quarters at Bozeman. We crossed 

 the south fork on the ice, passed around Cedar 

 Mountain, opposite a lower canon of the Stinking 

 Water, forded the stream by an Indian lodge pole 

 trail just below the canon and camped on a small 

 creek a few miles beyond. Above this camp the 

 ice on each fork of the stream was at least a foot 

 thick. The canon is about eight miles in length 

 with a fall of at least a hundred feet. The walls 



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